Cassandra of Troy, as the legend goes, was given a true gift of
prophecy by the gods...who, being fickle, also gave her the curse that
no one would believe her. I can identify with that.

In
2008, I thought that John McCain was probably the worst candidate in the
primaries. Sure, Huckabee gave him a run for the title, but McCain, who
was not a fiscal conservative, and one of the original Keating Five,
became the Republican candidate. I supported him in the general
election, because he was a better man than the candidate the Democrats
fielded (who wasn't?), and he lost to Barack Obama.

In
2012, I thought that Mitt Romney was the worst possible choice in the
primaries. Obamacare was disliked by a majority of the electorate at the
time, and the worst possible person to make the case against Obamacare
was the author of Romneycare. Mitt was a moderate, trying to sound like a
conservative, but failing at it rather badly.I supported him, too, in
the general election, because he was a better man than the candidate the
Democrats fielded (who wasn't?), who had proven himself inadequate to
the job of being president (as he has continued to this day), and he
lost to Barack Obama.

In 2016, I thought that Donald J.
Trump was the worst possible choice in the primaries. (Are you starting
to see a pattern here?) Barring some unforeseen miracle or the SMOD,
Trump will become the Republican nominee. Barring the gift of a spine to
Obama and his Justice Department, Hillary will be his opponent. (I
almost said "running mate". I keep forgetting which side he's supposed
to be on!)
She is a venal liar who apparently is the
author of most of Obama's failed Middle East policies. She
underestimated Putin, the Muslim Brotherhood and her horndog husband and
overestimated her cleverness as a politician, money launderer, and her
ability to hide her correspondence without compromising national
security.

I would never vote for Hillary, and the
thought of her in the Ovum Office is enough to make one's skin crawl.
However, I believe that there are already a large number of people who
feel exactly the same way about Donald J. Trump, even before he
expressed his lunatic ideas about Ted Cruz's father and Lee Harvey
Oswald. Dude. You were winning! Why in the world are you incapable of
just keeping your big mouth shut when the occasion calls for it?

In
addition to those who already feel this way, Democrat and Republican
alike, I believe there are vast numbers yet to be persuaded to this
opinion, but who will be.

So, there you have
it! I feel as though I'm about to hit the presidential trifecta, and
I'm not happy about it one bit. Should the White House, possibly the
Senate and SCOTUS all tilt Left in the next four to eight years, there
will be no comfort in saying "I told you so". Not that it would do any
good. I'm convinced that should this election "go South", Trump
supporters will blame everyone except their candidate (and themselves).
Like Obama blaming Bush for the last eight years, it will never be the
Donald's fault. No, of course not. That would be too obvious!

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